wheel alignment

[1985VK]

No-one here removed a steering wheel or changed out a clock spring? Not rocket science people.
Does the car drive straight after the wheel alignment, did it drive straight before? Has the steering wheel ever been off in the cars 20 plus year life?

Dunno if the steering wheel has ever been off. It passed a roady about 12 months ago. The front left tyre showed feathering on the inside and outside with lots of tread in the centre. I think it was the off centre steering wheel that gave the driver the shits so he took it in for an alignment.

 

[Immortality]

It's got a lot of caster and interestingly it's got more caster on the drivers side than passenger side and IIRC they come set up with more caster on the passenger from factory which I believe is done to allow for the natural camber most road surfaces have.

 

[Immortality]

Factory specs for the front end

 

[Immortality]

Rear end factory specs

 

[1985VK]

It's got a lot of caster and interestingly it's got more caster on the drivers side than passenger side and IIRC they come set up with more caster on the passenger from factory which I believe is done to allow for the natural camber most road surfaces have.

I don't know the technicalities or whether it needed an alignment or whether much adjustment was done to make an alignment worth it.

 

[Immortality]

It wasn't terrible, a touch more toe in (like it had) doesn't normally hurt.

 

[Lex]

Rear end factory specs
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How do you adjust rear camber on s1 vt?
There is no rear camber adjustment on them.

 

[Immortality]

How do you adjust rear camber on s1 vt?
There is no rear camber adjustment on them.

You can't other than raise and lower the car.

From VX onward you only had toe adjustments.

If you want adjustment then you need to fit an after market bush adjustment kit.

 

[vc commodore]

If the place is blaming old bushings and suspension for the steering wheel being off centred, go back and ask why he aligned it with worn components.

Even having worn components won't cause the steering wheel to come out crooked....

The place is feeding a load of bulldust as an excuse for pee poor workmanship.

The wear I could only put down to too much toe in...

The specs Mort posted up, I wouldn't go too much by them.....

If you adjust to the outer limits of those specs, you'll end up with tyres shredded after 10,000K either on the inner or outer edge, depending on which limit you went for.

An alignment is done by reading tyre wear and adjusting according to how those tyres wore....

 

[lout]

they need to set steering wheel straight ahead, then perform alignment
one tie rod adjustment too long and one too short